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The grounds and ends of the baptism of the children of the faithful. Opened…The grounds and ends of the baptisme of the children of the faithfull. Opened…
The grounds and ends of the baptism of the children of the faithful. Opened in a familiar discourse by way of a dialogue, or brotherly conference. / By the learned and faithful minister of Christ, John Cotton, teacher of the Church of Boston in New-England.The grounds and ends of the baptisme of the children of the faithfull. Opened in a familiar discourse by way of a dialogue, or brotherly conference. / By the learned and faithfull minister of Christ, John Cotton, teacher of the Church of Boston in New-England.
London: printed by R.C. for Andrew Crooke, 1646
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1You much mistake it, if you take it, there is any such difference to be put between seed and children: for both of them are taken alike promiscuously. Sometime seed is put for the spiritual children, and children are put for the carnal seed. And sometimes again the seed are put for the carnal children, and children for the spiritual seed, in Gal. 3.26. when the Apostle saith, If you be Christs, then are you Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise; there seed is put for spiritual children. But when he saith, Jerusalem that now is, is in bondage with her children, (Gal. 4.25.) there he putteth children for the carnal seed: And so he doth also even in some of those Texts, which your self allege to the contrary, as in Acts. 3.25. when the Apostle saith, Ye are the children of the Prophets, and of the Covenant which God made with our fathers, he speaketh of such whom he exhorteth to repent, and to be converted, ver. 19. And therefore yet they were the carnal seed. And he speaketh to them to whom he saith, Christ was sent to turn every one of them from their iniquities, vers. 26. And therefore he knew no other of them, nor spake no otherwise to them, then as to men yet in their sins. And so in that other place which you quote out of Acts 13.26, 33. the Apostle plainly calleth them the children of the stock of Abraham; who were the natural seed of Abraham, and whom afterward he calleth despisers, vers. 41. And amongst whom many of them contradicted and blasphemed his doctrine, verse 45. So that from the word children, it cannot be gathered that in this Text, the Apostle meaneth, children walking in the steps of the faith of their fathers.
1You much mistake it, if you take it, there is any such difference to be put between seed and children: for both of them are taken alike promiscuously. Sometime seed is put for the spirituall children, and children are put for the carnall seed. And sometimes againe the seed are put for the carnall children, and children for the spirituall seed, in